Rise Before the Flame Dies

Verse

Frost is climbing up the cabin door

Boots still standing where you stood before

Ash and snowfall mixing on the ground

Your name still echoes but there's no sound

I packed the lantern with the oil half gone

Counting seconds till the dark comes on

Your compass frozen pointing to the east

I'm burning driftwood just to keep the least

Pre-Chorus

Can I hold this ember one more mile

Can the cold forgive me for a while

Something in the smoke says carry on

Chorus

Rise before the flame dies

Before the last light leaves your eyes

I'll carry what the fire gave

Through the frost, beyond the grave

Rise before the flame dies

Under these unburied skies

I won't let the coldness win

I'll light the dark again

Verse

Northern wind is tearing at the seams

Ice is cracking loud beneath my dreams

Found your gloves beneath the frozen pine

Half a heartbeat, half a broken line

The mountain swallows every word we said

Snow keeps falling white around your bed

But something moves beneath this frozen skin

A single spark that won't give in

Pre-Chorus

Can I hold this ember one more mile

Can the cold forgive me for a while

Something in the smoke says carry on

Chorus

Rise before the flame dies

Before the last light leaves your eyes

I'll carry what the fire gave

Through the frost, beyond the grave

Rise before the flame dies

Under these unburied skies

I won't let the coldness win

I'll light the dark again

Bridge

Maybe goodbye isn't the end of us

Maybe the ash still holds the trust

I'll build a torch from everything you left

Carve your name in every breath

The glacier cracks, the sun breaks through

I rise for me, I rise for you

Chorus

Rise before the flame dies

Before the last light leaves your eyes

I'll carry what the fire gave

Through the frost, beyond the grave

Rise before the flame dies

Under these unburied skies

I won't let the coldness win

I'll light the dark again